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openSUSE Security Update : SuSEfirewall2 (openSUSE-2017-1246)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 104421

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for SuSEfirewall2 fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2017-15638: Fixed a security issue with too open implicit portmapper rules (bsc#1064127): A source net restriction for _rpc_ services was not taken into account for the implicitly added rules for port 111, making the portmap service accessible to everyone in the affected zone.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update and SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update projects.

Solution

Update the affected SuSEfirewall2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064127

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 104421

File Name: openSUSE-2017-1246.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2017

Updated: 11/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15638

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:susefirewall2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15638